--- title: A new baby in the house — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «A new baby in the house», a lesson of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A newborn baby changes a whole house. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / A new baby in the house # A new baby in the house Lesson 19 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/0/) — A newborn baby changes a whole house. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/1/) — It has a tiny stomach, so it needs feeding every two or three hours, day and night, and crying is the only way it can say what it needs. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/2/) — Parents get very little sleep, so they can be tired, grumpy and forgetful for a few months, and visitors seem to talk only about the baby. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/3/) — In Vancouver, Dad yawns over his cereal, the changing bag by the door is stuffed with nappies, and Mum calls from the sofa, "She's feeding, can you give us a minute?" Nine-year-old Josh feels a bit left out, and that is normal. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/4/) — Babies join families in other ways too: some children are adopted for good, and some foster children come to stay for a while. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/5/) — Parents get time off work, called maternity and paternity leave, to look after a new baby. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/6/) — A newborn baby needs feeding every two or three hours, day and night, because its stomach is tiny. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/7/) — Crying is a baby's only way to say it is hungry, wet, cold or tired, and the night waking slowly gets better over a few months. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/8/) — Parents of a new baby are very tired, and tired people can snap or forget things; it is not a change in how they feel about you. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/9/) — Feeling jealous of a new baby is very common, and parents still love the older child just as much. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/10/) — A christening is a church ceremony where a baby is welcomed into the Christian church and given its names, with water on its head. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/11/) — Godparents are chosen at a christening to take a special interest in the child as it grows. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/12/) — Adoption makes a child, by law, a permanent member of a new family, and the adoptive parents are the child's real parents. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/13/) — Fostering is looking after a child from another family for a while, when their own parents cannot cope for now. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/14/) — Paternity leave is time off work for a new father; in Britain it is usually two weeks. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/15/) — Maternity leave is time off work for a new mother; in Britain it can last up to a year, often on lower pay. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/16/) — Babies wear nappies, which are changed six to ten times a day, and nappy cream stops sore skin. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/17/) — Babies feed from the breast or a bottle, often for twenty minutes or more, and they need calm to settle. - ← previous: [We're having a baby!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/) - next →: [Going to the doctor and the chemist](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/20-the-doctor-and-the-chemist/) - ↑ back to [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/)